Egypt makes big economic push as leader-in-waiting Sisi courts Russia

Egypt makes big economic push as leader-in-waiting Sisi courts Russia

February 9, 2015

Far from dissipating, the despair that fueled Egypt’s 2011 uprising has deepened in the last three years, at the same time as political polarization has sharpened. A low-level insurgency has moved its attacks beyond the restive Sinai Peninsula into Cairo, the capital. Reported from Cairo, with an interview with Egypt’s Minister of Planning.